What Does The Deck Say? July 9, 2024

Dust II Onyx Travel Tarot: Mama Staff, Ace of Gourds, & Death. ©Courtney Alexander.

Today’s cards: Mama Staff, Ace of Gourds, & Death.

Patch up the facade you present to others if you have to, but stop lying to yourself. Things are not going as well as you have been pretending they were, but it is not too late to do anything about it. Step One: Stop. Step Two: Bury your heart. Step Three: Allow yourself the time and the patience to rest, to let go of those hurts and poisons that you thought would make you strong, to allow yourself the necessary indulgence of being weak and vulnerable. Otherwise, how else are you going to allow the medicine present in the love of those who care about you seep in?


The Dust II Onyx tarot deck is Courtney Alexander’s homage to her Black heritage and to the Black matriarchs and leaders of her communities. The deck is also a love offering to the LGBTQIA+ community and is presented as a tool for every person within the African diaspora to feel a connection to without prejudice. The Dust II Onyx, A Melanated Tarot Deck, is ©Courtney Alexander.

What Does The Deck Say” is a weekday series of 3 card pulls from a cartomancy deck. No context or query is given to frame what the cards say as the posts are reading samples and not personal instruction. The result is sometimes humorous, sometimes serious, and usually surprising. All readers are invited to leave a comment about what they perceive in the random spread as each person will interact with the cards in their own way.

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